RELIGION. Collection of approximately 45 letters and documents addressed to Canon Michele CASCAVILLA (1860-1919); all mounted in one folio volume (red cardboard damaged, spotting). The whole of the canon's career is retraced here. A leading figure in the clergy of Palermo, where he taught theology and was rector of the church of Santa Maria della Volta, he eventually became Grand Prior of the Basilica of S. Nicola in Bari. Letters from cardinals Antonio Agliardi, Pietro Gasparri, Alessandro Lualdi (archbishop of Palermo, 7), Mariano Rampolla; from clergymen... Diplomas of Doctor of Theology, Societa Siciliana per la Storia patria in Palermo, Société française d'Archéologie, Accademia dei Pellegrini Affaticati de Castroreale, Societa Cattolica Italiana per gli Studi scientifici, Arcadia. Plus newspapers and brochures.